cuba.
cask (large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks)
Meaning & usage
cask (large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks)
industrial vat (large tub)
clipping of cuba-libre (“Cuba libre”)
Where this word comes from
From Old Galician-Portuguese cuba, from Latin cūpa (“cask; vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Doublet of copa and copo, which came through a Late Latin intermediary variant.
inflection of cubar: third-person singular present indicative
inflection of cubar: second-person singular imperative
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